Robert Kyagulanyi known as Bobi Wine was propelled to parliament by a new form of youthful digital-age fury mixed with middle-class disdain for the political establishment. PHOTO | AFP
Early last week, rising Ugandan opposition politician and MP Robert Kyagulanyi, popularly known as Bobi Wine, his stage name from his rapper days, was arrested in the northwestern town of Arua.
His arrest followed a fracas in which a car in President Yoweri Museveni’s convoy was stoned. In circumstances that remain murky, the presidential guard shot dead Kyagulanyi’s police guard. In a Twitter post, the legislator alleged they were aiming to assassinate him, but he was not in the car.
